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title: Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of depression. — Being in hospital, and a sick parent o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of depression. Exam question 3 of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 3 · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent

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Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of depression.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, characterise · **To what, where:** accurate characterisation, depression

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of depression.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	characterisation	characterisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	depression	depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the accurate characterisation of depression |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characterisation=Topic |
| 2 | **characterise** |  |  | depression |  |  |  |  | nom characterisation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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An infection transmitted by contact

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent:e3:o1:1
# text = An infection transmitted by contact
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	transmitted	transmit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transmit** | participle |  | a infection *not said here* |  |  |  | by contact | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An illness affecting mood, energy and thought

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent:e3:o2:1
# text = An illness affecting mood, energy and thought
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	affecting	affect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | gerund | a illness *not said here* | mood and energy and thought |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mood=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A transient sadness of an afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent:e3:o3:1
# text = A transient sadness of an afternoon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	transient	transient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A form of idleness and lack of will

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent:e3:o4:1
# text = A form of idleness and lack of will
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	idleness	idleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** |  |  | idleness |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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